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As a result of public pressure, Louis XVI called the representative to meet at Versailles.
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After the failure of the meeting of the estates-general, many of the representative of all three estates proclaimed themselves to be the national assembly.
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The King rufused to recognize the legitamacy of the mational assembly. he assembled royal troops neer Paris. rumours of the attack by their king spurred crowds to storm the royal prison, the Bastille, to release prisoners and collect weapons to use for defence.
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Due to the rumours of a poor economy and the scarcity of food, fear and panic in the country side led to attacks of the estates of the nobility.
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In 1789, the decleration of the rights of man and of the citizen was passed by the national assembly.
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In October 1789, several thousand people marched to versaille to protest the high price of bread.
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In 1790, the national assembly wrote a new constitution for France that kept the country a monarchy, but transformed the distribution of political powers. it proclaimed France a sovereign nation, made all government official subject to the law, dissolved the royal adminisatration, and shifted power from paris to 83 individual districts.
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beetween 1790 and 1793, two different political groups emerged, the Jacobins, and Girandins. the Girandins were moderates who wanted to maintain the monarchy, while the Jacobins were radicals who wanted to establish France as a republic. the Jacobins stormed to the Tuileries palace in august 1792, where the royal family was, and the king was suspended from his duties by the elected legislative assembly.
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with the canges to the political structures of France, many nobles fled to Austria and Prussia and attempted to mobilize foreign powers against the new government of France.
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the national convention, compromising representatives from the Jacobins and the Girondins voted to remove the monarchy and establish a rebublic.
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Louis XVI was tried and found guilty of treason by the new republic. he was sentenced to death, but his execution was not supported by all of France.
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facing a series of military losses against Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain, the government instituted a levee en masse (mass conscription) to provide additional soldiersfor Frances military efforts.